SQL Server TRIM character

Question

I have the following string: \'BOB*\', how do I trim the * so it shows up as \'BOB\'

I tried the RTRIM(\'BOB*\',\'*\') but does not work as says needs only 1 paramet

Answer 1

Another pretty good way to implement Oracle's TRIM char FROM string in MS SQL Server is the following:

• First, you need to identify a char that will never be used in your string, for example ~
• You replace all spaces with that character
• You replace the character * you want to trim with a space
• You LTrim + RTrim the obtained string
• You replace back all spaces with the trimmed character *
• You replace back all never-used characters with a space

For example:

REPLACE(REPLACE(LTrim(RTrim(REPLACE(REPLACE(string,' ','~'),'*',' '))),' ','*'),'~',' ')